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HHS bureaucrats know exactly what company’s application they are reviewing and whether they are union plans. This has arguably led to the disproportional acceptance of waiver application from large corporations and unions.

“Obviously talking about the health risks of smoking is a politically correct thing to do,” Thomas Peters, communications director for the American Principles Project, told The Daily Caller. “But talking about the widespread evidence that abortion harms vulnerable women and of course always harms the unborn human life isn’t politically correct so there is a bit of selection.”

Sebelius is threatening to put health insurers out of business in a substantial portion of the market if they state that ObamaCare is boosting their costs.

Obama’s top health official warned the insurance industry that the administration won’t tolerate blaming premium hikes on the new health overhaul law and said they may be excluded from new health insurance markets that will open in 2014 under Obamacare. They’d lose out on as many as 30 million people nationwide.

Harry Reid should have read the Obamacare bill before he pushed it so hard. He wrote a letter to Sebelius at HHS complaining that the proposed Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulation ‘will result in a net reduction in payment to Nevada’s hospitals’.

Obesity Rating for Every American Must Be Included in Stimulus-Mandated Electronic Health Records, Says HHS

The Obama Administration will give Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new “high-risk” insurance program under a provision of the federal health care legislation enacted in March — and has quietly approved a plan submitted by an appointee of Governor Edward Rendell (D) under which the new program will cover any abortion that is legal in Pennsylvania.

Meet Dr. Donald Berwick, President Obama’s wealth-redistributing nominee for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Republicans should defeat his nomination.

In testimony presented to the House panel Tuesday, GAO special investigations official Gregory D. Kutz said that in at least eight cases, Head Start employees “manipulated” information to admit ineligible children. Enrollment rules were so lax, he warned, that Head Start workers could easily “doctor” enrollment applications, and families could enter the program with “bogus” documents created at home.

Angoff is a class-action litigator who specialized in and made millions by suing insurance companies for “price gouging.” As insurance commissioner of Missouri he was famous for going after insurers he believed had too much in reserve (too profitable).